Scala Foundation

Scala Foundation

The Scala Foundation’s mission is to restore meaning and purpose to American culture through beauty, liberal arts education and religion. Scala was founded in 2016 by Margarita Mooney Clayton, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. Scala’s activities are led by internationally renowned artists, prestigious scholars, and exemplary educators in both K-12 and higher education who teach workshops for educators, lead masterclasses for artists, and run summer programs and seminars for students.

Conference Takeaways

Conference Takeaways

Why this conference?

Why this conference?

Choral Prayer

Choral Prayer

Beauty in the Curriculum

Beauty in the Curriculum

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  • @user-ps5dc5gh6b
    @user-ps5dc5gh6b5 күн бұрын

    Solid perspective on education.

  • @10.6.12.
    @10.6.12.2 ай бұрын

    This is an intelèctulization of Orthodoxy. More Anglican than Orthodox.

  • @10.6.12.
    @10.6.12.2 ай бұрын

    The United States of Amnesia. ( Gore Vidal)

  • @10.6.12.
    @10.6.12.2 ай бұрын

    The trouble with orthodoxy converts is that because of iconography, they all think they are art experts whose opinions are lauded over others ' with impunity. JP is a marvelous crafts person not an artist.

  • @10.6.12.
    @10.6.12.2 ай бұрын

    To say that the arts in a museum do not have a participative role is just plane stupid.

  • @damiantrollope211
    @damiantrollope2112 ай бұрын

    This is BRILJANT!

  • @edgarcardenas7303
    @edgarcardenas73032 ай бұрын

    So it’s useless😂

  • @plumjam
    @plumjam4 ай бұрын

    5 and a half minutes until the actual conversation starts. This could be an area for improvement. 😁

  • @user-kz9bf7pg2p
    @user-kz9bf7pg2p5 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this!

  • @samithadhamma
    @samithadhamma5 ай бұрын

    I am a graduate student. I studied philosophy. For a long time I thought that studying philosophy was not useful. But after seeing this video, I feel that studying philosophy is very important

  • @poolestephen1
    @poolestephen16 ай бұрын

    I was not aware of “The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature”. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. To anyone interested in the topic of “Classical Education and African-American History”, I recommend Susan C. Jarratt’s fascinating article “Classics and Counterpublics in Nineteenth-Century Historically Black Colleges” (College English, Vol. 72, No. 2, November 2009).

  • @amidala3927
    @amidala39276 ай бұрын

    5:30 Opening Remarks 21:01 Liturgical Art as Prophesy and Priesthood: Sacred Art and the Restoration of Human Dignity 1:21:30 Post lecture Q&A 1:37:00 Choral Morning Prayer 2:34:36 Memory and the Role of Art in Identity (I'll add more time stamps as I continue to watch)

  • @gauguin007
    @gauguin0077 ай бұрын

    Thanks for sharing, I’m reading Aidan‘s book at the moment.

  • @porkmilk8984
    @porkmilk89847 ай бұрын

    How many classes do modern lib arts folks consist of rhetoric, astronomy, music? It is a upper crust nonsense degree for the hunger games Capital city people to continue smelling their rose scented farts.

  • @jonathanheywood3694
    @jonathanheywood36949 ай бұрын

    Amazing icon. Stunning how much is incorporated here. Thank you for sharing.

  • @RalphAnthonyCBasco
    @RalphAnthonyCBasco9 ай бұрын

    Wonderful talk, Margarita! This has been very helpful to me.

  • @__seeker__
    @__seeker__10 ай бұрын

    Remarkable, thank you!

  • @Kathleenpoors
    @Kathleenpoors10 ай бұрын

    Do the faces in the icons look like his face? I think so

  • @jonezzzyyy6192
    @jonezzzyyy619210 ай бұрын

    Fastest blinker ever

  • @UrOnlineKitchen
    @UrOnlineKitchen10 ай бұрын

    She said nothing by talking this much

  • @dominichassan7070
    @dominichassan707010 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this interview. As a Catholic architect who has been involved in designing churches in New Zealand I have found your conversation very helpful. I'm looking forward to your book.

  • @ScalaFoundation
    @ScalaFoundation10 ай бұрын

    Have you see our videos with Aidan Hart, an iconographer from New Zealand based in the UK? He's also going to soon apprentice a young artist from New Zealand.

  • @dominichassan7070
    @dominichassan707010 ай бұрын

    Yes, I have watched a few videos with Aidan Hart, also very helpful. I'm interested in how Catholic church architecture can embody the iconographic tradition in a contemporary way. Also, how Iconography is introduced into 20th century churches without creating a distracting clash of languages.

  • @darleneroach2848
    @darleneroach284810 ай бұрын

    Where is the KZread Video with Aidan Hart on priests, prophet, and king?

  • @ScalaFoundation
    @ScalaFoundation10 ай бұрын

    You can find that here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Ymt_2tyDcaXZm7w.html

  • @kbeetles
    @kbeetles10 ай бұрын

    Thank you both for this captivating conversation, it generates a need to be quiet, reflective and open to a renewed appreciation of the beautiful patterns in all areas of life. I will seek out David's books for sure!

  • @ScalaFoundation
    @ScalaFoundation10 ай бұрын

    Well said! thank you for your comment!

  • @feeble_stirrings
    @feeble_stirrings11 ай бұрын

    Thanks for uploading this! I enjoy Aiden's talks

  • @Mooseman327
    @Mooseman32711 ай бұрын

    Banksy is a real artist. Marcel Duchamp? Meh.

  • @luishernandez-hs1ks
    @luishernandez-hs1ks11 ай бұрын

    Banksy is trash. I'm not a fan of Duchamp, but I won't deny his place.

  • @Mythonaut
    @Mythonaut11 ай бұрын

    Liturgical Art does not just entertain, or use reality instrumentally, it gathers reality and refocuses it towards its divine purpose, thereby transfiguring it. This is ultimately a shade of the purpose of man in creation. To expand Eden into our personal worlds. To imbue life with purpose and beauty. To offer it all up to God in worship. By carrying out the actions of Christ in the world, we are being the body of christ, and are therefore transfigured ourselves.

  • @kbeetles
    @kbeetles11 ай бұрын

    Loved this conversation, great questions and great answers right from the soul and from the Scriptures. Thank you both!

  • @jeanlanz2344
    @jeanlanz234411 ай бұрын

    Great discussion on postmodernism and its contempt for Christianity, authority, and hierarchy. The ugly statue of the raggedy spirit being in front of the desacralized church showed that loud and clear. Thank you.

  • @symbolicmeta1942
    @symbolicmeta194211 ай бұрын

    Is Moses and Elijah there because God is eternal and so meeting any human directly means that moment they met God is preserved eternally? So when you see the transfiguration you’re seeing all eternity which includes the moments God showed himself to man?

  • @colmcille9669
    @colmcille966911 ай бұрын

    In a recent video on the transfiguration by Orthoglobus, it said that Moses and Elijah represented the law and the prophets pointing to Christ's divinity.

  • @hmkzosimaskrampis3185
    @hmkzosimaskrampis318511 ай бұрын

    Wow

  • @moriahmylod
    @moriahmylod Жыл бұрын

    'True beauty wounds us because it points us to something beyond ourselves'-- what a delightful conversation!! I was inspired to pick up "The Wounds of Beauty" by Margarita Mooney Clayton after the 2023 SCALA Foundation Conference in Princeton, NJ. I couldn't get enough of this book, it was an absolutely edible & nourishing book to read.

  • @timothygodbold6094
    @timothygodbold6094 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent Thank you Aidan.

  • @bjl11663
    @bjl11663 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @bjl11663
    @bjl11663 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful, thank you.

  • @martinzfjr
    @martinzfjr Жыл бұрын

    Terrific questions and answers!

  • @MoiLiberty
    @MoiLiberty Жыл бұрын

    You're correct. Education is supposed to enrich the soul. Today, education is a series of mental gymnastics. "STEM education" is education the same way "social justice" is justice. Is this not the natural consequence of secular liberalism? Hence the title of my next book: Secularism: The god that failed™©®

  • @MR-G-Rod
    @MR-G-Rod Жыл бұрын

    Jonathans body language right at the start 😂 I knew something was up with the guy at the far right of the screen. Then the liberal arts professor requested respect for the boundaries of secular art 🤣 a kind of safe space 😭 at about 5:50. Then 53:42 hahahahaha

  • @MoiLiberty
    @MoiLiberty Жыл бұрын

    Most incredible is how little attention, memory and remembering this truly truly Christian understanding manifests within Western Civilization.

  • @guimochet
    @guimochet Жыл бұрын

    22:32 pillao!

  • @SebastianGirado
    @SebastianGirado11 ай бұрын

    Jajajajaja.

  • @DonalLeader
    @DonalLeader Жыл бұрын

    Great and necessary conversation. Echoes of Romano Guardini here.

  • @petri5404
    @petri5404 Жыл бұрын

    2:34:37 Pageau

  • @LenaCabana
    @LenaCabana Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful message ❤ Thank you. I will check books written by Mr Makato Fujimura.

  • @andrewternet8370
    @andrewternet8370 Жыл бұрын

    6:26:00 It doesn't have to be the Arthurian legend anymore. It can be LotR.

  • @jonnyschaff7068
    @jonnyschaff7068 Жыл бұрын

    But it cannot

  • @verdajaroszewski9995
    @verdajaroszewski9995 Жыл бұрын

    Fabulous conference. Helped me to reconceptualize and reformulate many of my ideas I have acquired in forty years of teaching in a secular college setting.

  • @dancetalkwithjoannecarey2024
    @dancetalkwithjoannecarey2024 Жыл бұрын

    I attempted virtually and am SO happy that I did. Learned SO much and so happy to learn my thoughts on beauty and art are shared by so many and I have a place to discover it more. Thank you .

  • @michaelm7823
    @michaelm7823 Жыл бұрын

    What an amazing day. So much wisdom shared. So many kind and interesting people. Margarita with the riveting content and the best moderator on earth? I need a new notebook after today jammed with great stuff from every speaker. Thank you !

  • @theproudasshole5476
    @theproudasshole5476 Жыл бұрын

    All liberal arts programs throughout the country should be shut down and teachers fired and building scraped in order to flower cost of tuition across the country

  • @G.B.P.
    @G.B.P. Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing this :)

  • @dorellstanescu2442
    @dorellstanescu2442 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you to you both for your work!

  • @sparkomatic
    @sparkomatic Жыл бұрын

    23:15 So tedious. The bush burned without being consumed and the virgin conceived but remained a virgin. Simple and basic. No need for the long convolutions.